The World Book: Organized Knowledge in Story and Picture, 1. köideMichael Vincent O'Shea, Ellsworth D. Foster, George Herbert Locke Hanson-Roach-Fowler Company, 1917 |
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... animal resembling a hyena in its sloping back and its color , the body being gray , irregularly striped with black . It has ... animals , as its weak jaws and teeth prevent it from overcoming any but the very smallest is called shwanpan ...
... animal resembling a hyena in its sloping back and its color , the body being gray , irregularly striped with black . It has ... animals , as its weak jaws and teeth prevent it from overcoming any but the very smallest is called shwanpan ...
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... animals of Africa , the elephant , lion , hippopotamus , rhi- noceros , crocodile , leopard , hyena , giraffe and buffalo , are plentiful in Abyssinia . The year , which begins in September , con- sists of twelve months of thirty days ...
... animals of Africa , the elephant , lion , hippopotamus , rhi- noceros , crocodile , leopard , hyena , giraffe and buffalo , are plentiful in Abyssinia . The year , which begins in September , con- sists of twelve months of thirty days ...
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... animal adapts itself to a climate to which it is not accus- tomed . The best examples of acclimatization are the ... Animals vary considerably in their power to adapt themselves to different climates . Some , such as the dog , the ...
... animal adapts itself to a climate to which it is not accus- tomed . The best examples of acclimatization are the ... Animals vary considerably in their power to adapt themselves to different climates . Some , such as the dog , the ...
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... animals which have been rendered immune by inoculation of snake venom . ADDER'S TONGUE . See DOG'S - TOOTH VIO- LET . ADDING MACHINE , a name generally but not always accurately applied to computing machines . Not only do these devices ...
... animals which have been rendered immune by inoculation of snake venom . ADDER'S TONGUE . See DOG'S - TOOTH VIO- LET . ADDING MACHINE , a name generally but not always accurately applied to computing machines . Not only do these devices ...
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... animals count ( see ARITHMETIC ) . They will be more interested to know that observers among the tribes of South America , Australia and various islands report many tribes who have names for numbers only to two or three or five , their ...
... animals count ( see ARITHMETIC ) . They will be more interested to know that observers among the tribes of South America , Australia and various islands report many tribes who have names for numbers only to two or three or five , their ...
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Page 458 - That young lady had a talent for describing the involvements, and feelings, and characters of ordinary life, which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with. The Big Bow-wow strain I can do myself like any now going ; but the exquisite touch, which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting, from the truth of the description and the sentiment, is denied to me.
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